{"id":96594,"date":"2020-06-25T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=96594"},"modified":"2023-04-18T04:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T08:44:00","slug":"fair-extension-story-stephen-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=96594","title":{"rendered":"Fair Extension ( story ) &#8230; Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most interesting character in this story, about a lung cancer patient who makes, as the phrase goes, a deal with The Devil, is also the most ridiculous. That character&#8217;s name is George Elvid and he&#8217;s a &#8220;pudgy&#8221; salesman who at least serves as a metaphor for the aforementioned entity.<\/p>\n<p>He offers Dave Streeter, who&#8217;s been told he has a few months to live, an Extension in the form of a longer life in exchange for money and a redistribution of his (Streeter&#8217;s) bad luck or &#8220;negative weight&#8221;. It&#8217;s a silly premise with a mundane plot and odd references to real-life celebrity news bits.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 2 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcellee.com\/?p=9512\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/9512.jpg\" alt=\"review : Full Dark No Stars ( book ) ... Stephen King\" title=\"review : Full Dark No Stars ( book ) ... Stephen King\" style=\"height:100px;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most interesting character in this story, about a lung cancer patient who makes, as the phrase goes, a deal with The Devil, is also the most ridiculous. That character&#8217;s name is George Elvid and he&#8217;s a &#8220;pudgy&#8221; salesman who at least serves as a metaphor for the aforementioned entity. He offers Dave Streeter, who&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=96594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fair Extension ( story ) &#8230; Stephen King<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9760],"tags":[14530,246,9291,2710,102,44],"class_list":["post-96594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-2-of-5-rating","tag-death","tag-health","tag-maine","tag-money","tag-romance","tag-stephen-king"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96594"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96922,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96594\/revisions\/96922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}